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CommentMamoru Oshii honoured at Fantasia
Japanese film-maker receives Lifetime Achievement award on opening night of genre festival in Montreal.
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FeaturesInside The Cinema Project
The Cinema Project, which is part of the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, is having a banner year.
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NewsDovzhenko biopic secures co-producers
Konstantin Konovalov’s Odessa-set biopic about the Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko.Odessa-Debut, has already found co-producers in Finland and Argentina.
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NewsScottish producers call for film production fund
Independent Producers Scotland calls for tax on cinema tickets to go towards fund.
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NewsUK anti-piracy action to launch
BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Virgin Media partner with Government and creative industries on scheme.
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NewsBFI, ICO launch exhibition training
The initiative aims to provide bespoke technical advice for independent exhibitors across all nine of the BFI’s Audience Network Hub areas.
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NewsBen Whishaw to voice Paddington
The 33-year-old British actor has stepped in “slightly grudgingly” to replace Colin Firth as the voice of Paddington Bear in StudioCanal’s CGI/live-action feature.
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NewsAMPAS board elects governors
Five first-time governors have been elected to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences board.
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FeaturesNoboru Iguchi, Live & Nuigulumar Z
Ian Sandwell talks to the Japanese film-maker about his two films screening at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
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NewsUni acquires Jolie-Pitt starrer
Universal Pictures has prevailed in a studio bidding war, picking up world rights to the drama By The Sea that will mark the first time Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have starred together since Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2007.
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NewsNXNE expands to include film
Toronto’s North By Northeast (NXNE) is expanding its film festival programing beyond music-themed movies to include films of all genres.
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NewsAlloy readies Sisterhood Everlasting
Alloy Entertainment is developing Sisterhood Everlasting, the third film from its Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants series.
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NewsArt directors set awards dates
The 19th Annual Art Directors Guild Excellence In Production Design Awards will take place on January 31, 2015.
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NewsContinental eyes Cannes sales
EXCLUSIVE: LA-based sales company founders James Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder head to the Croisette with a slate that includes drama Noble and dark comedy Friended To Death.
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NewsFSC boards Hot Docs premiere Meet The Patels
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has picked up world sales on Meet The Patels ahead of its world premiere this weekend at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.
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NewsBBC to revisit Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Cider With Rosie, The Go-Between and An Inspector Calls will be adapted as 90-minute dramas for a BBC1 season of early 20th century British novels and plays.
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CommentHappy 90th birthday, Eric Pleskow
The veteran Hollywood producer Eric Pleskow celebrates his 90th birthday today.
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NewsSalvation heads to France, Greece, Estonia
Kristian Levring’s upcoming western The Salvation, set to play in Cannes, has been picked up by distributors in France, Greece and Estonia.